Bookreport:
Bookreport:
David Copperfield
The book is written by CHARLES DICKENS, one of England´s greatest novelists, who lived from 1812 to 1870.
The main settinqs are:
Blunderstone, in Suffolk
Yarmouth
Kent
London
The main characters are:
DAVID COPPEPFIELD: He is the person whose life is told in the story.
MR. MURDSTONE: David´s stepfather, a very stern and cruel man who sometimes beats young david.
CLARA PEGGOTTY: She is the servant of the Copperfield´s and she loves David like a son. (Everybody calls her Peggotty, because Mrs.
Copperfield is also named "Clora".)
STEERFORTH: David´s best friend.
David Copperfield is a half-orphan, but when he is eight, his mother marries Mr. Murdstone, a very stern and cruel man. David bites his stepfather's hand and because of this he is sent away to a boarding school. There he gets to know Steerforth, who takes care of him.
One day David is told that his mother is dead. Mr. Murdstone doesn´t care about him and he is allowed to make a short holiday in Yarmouth to visit Peggotty´s family. But home again his stepfather sends him to London to a warehouse to work. David hates his work so he runs away to his father´s aunt. She adopts him and he can go to a "good' school.
He becomes a friend of Agnes, who is the daughter of Mr.Wickfield, the man in whose house David lives now. After he has finished school he visits Peggotty´s family with Steerforth. ,Steerforth falls in love with Emily (she is adopted by Peggotty"s brother ) who is promised to Ham Peggotty.So Steerforth and Emily run away. after a short time Steerforth abandones Emily cind he and Ham die in a terrible storm.
David recogrlizes thcit he loves Agnes who has always been like a sister to him. They marry.
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